The scheme, running until June, targets residents, businesses, indigent households, and deceased estates.
Incentives include partial debt write-offs, interest waivers, and discounts on recreational facilities.
The city hopes to curb electricity meter tampering and boost revenue collection, currently below the 95-percent target.
“Various municipal customers, including government departments, big business and residential customers, owe Tshwane a cumulative R30 billion. This amount is staggering and impedes effective service delivery,” Deputy Mayor Eugene Modise said on Tuesday.
“It is against this backdrop that the City of Tshwane decided to implement a debt-relief programme, whose aim, inter alia, is to provide financial relief…
